The October 2016 edition of the Policy Update, prepared for civil society organisations interested in European policy developments in the areas of migration and integration, is now available online.
EPIM has commissioned the European Policy Centre (EPC), a Brussels-based think tank, to produce regular Policy Updates.
The newly designed Policy Update highlights the topics relevant to EPIM’s sub-funds: (1) Immigration detention; (2) Reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS); (3) Children and youth on the move, (4) Mobile EU citizens’ access to rights, and (5) Integration. It also offers at the same time a dynamic overview of recent policy developments.
This edition’s special focus is dedicated to the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants. The UN General Assembly hosted its first-ever high-level summit on large movements of refugees and migrants in New York on 19 September. The Summit gathered world leaders for a day to discuss the challenges of, and possible responses to, mass migration, and adopted a declaration outlining broad commitments.
Other key highlights of this Policy Update include:
- Migration on the agenda of the EU Summit in Bratislava;
- The Council’s approval of a European Border and Coast Guard service;
- An analysis of the CEAS reform package;
- Rulings by the European Court of Justice on the expulsion of non-EU citizens with EU citizen dependents; and
- A closer look at unaccompanied children in Greece as seen through the eyes of Faros, an EPIM grantee organisation.